SQL Azure Data Sync is a great tool; even though it's only at a CTP stage, the experience is already quite polished and it's a pleasure to use. I've used it to export a database (schema and all) from an Azure subscription to my local machine; I needed to take my services offline for a longer period of time and had to create a full backup. (Perhaps this wasn't the ideal way to do that. But it was fun! )

On that note, it would be nice if Windows/SQL Azure subscriptions would support "deactivating" a service or database, respectively. I would like to be able to store these things (perhaps in my Azure storage account) with the ability to bring them back online at a later date. (Added to the linked UserVoice site: Allow taking a database offline to prevent charges to my account. (http://uservoice.com/a/jFr6r))

Enjoying the series! (Especially the dependency injection w/ Entity Framework - I wasn't sure if that was possible, and it's the biggest reason I've held off on using EF until now.)

Nitpicker's Corner: Your media download links for this post are not in the standard order, so I ended up (almost) downloading the MP3 or the MP4 instead of the WMV version. C9 devs, you've gotta get that fixed or I'm going to suffer motor memory loss.